Minute Meditations

Although Teresa had extraordinary experiences of God, she taught that ordinary prayer, like an intimate conversation with a friend, was available to all.

Wherever there was human suffering, Jesus was concerned about it now, and about its healing now.

Christianity isn’t an abstract philosophy. It’s a complete way of life.

The heart of Christianity is the great and incomprehensible truth that God’s true majesty, God’s authentic immensity, consists in God’s willingness to become lowly and forsaken.

The journey forward into God is a journey backward to an original innocence we never fully recover but where a sort of semi-paradise happens when love turns into charity.

An embrace of Lady Poverty means that we try to live freely by getting out from under the possessions that own us.